Quote Originally Posted by keefallan View Post
I thought I remember hearing that the v4's have better cooling distribution than its big brother because of where the tstats are located. Dont get me wrong, I'd rather have v6 stats all day long, but dont the 4's have better cooling? On my couple of v4's I do have, everytime I have swapped or pulled the powerhead, I have done the stats........all bubblebacks.

On my new 115(which I finally got bolted on, but not done), the previous owner had drilled two holes to get a socket thru the belly pan to get to the bolts. I opened up the holes with a unibit.....to make them round, and then siliconed a rubber grommet in place to blank it off. I will post pics of it in my thread. I can just push out the grommets if I need to access the bolts. The holes were already there, so I just dressed them up and blanked them off. You cant even really see them with the motor in running trim.
A split lower pan is what they needed...